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English 10 Honors day 24. Objective: To correctly identify phrases and their effect. Homework. Get out your paragraph from last class. Take 3 minutes to share with someone else in the room to make sure your explanation makes logical sense. Practice.
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English 10 Honors day 24 Objective: To correctly identify phrases and their effect
Homework • Get out your paragraph from last class. • Take 3 minutes to share with someone else in the room to make sure your explanation makes logical sense.
Practice • Complete the first 10 sentences on the worksheets for participles, infinitives, and gerunds. • Complete the worksheet labeled “Unit 3 Review.” • This will be for a grade!
New Notes • Take out your notes from last class so we can add to them. We will use the back of same sheet of paper.
Prepositional Phrases • Prepositions show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word • Act as ADJECTIVES or ADVERBS • Add precision/clarity and help combine sentence • There is an egg in the nest. • Zeb dreams about leaving for Seattle.
Appositive Phrases • Appositives rename or identify another noun or pronoun • Act as NOUNS • Add precision/clarity and help combine sentence • My best friends, Meredith and Emily, say that they are going to New Orleans, my favorite city.
Parenthetical Phrases • Parenthetical phrases are editorial – or unnecessary– comments • Place commas around parenthetical phrases • Help to add voice • The headmistress had been, I suppose, a very mean lady.
Worksheets • Complete the worksheets over appositives and prepositions.
Consider all of the syntactical elements we have discussed and answer the following question. • How is the author using syntax in the last two paragraphs on page 25 to convey a personal voice and reflective/pensive tone?